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happy talk

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as in cross talk

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Recent Examples of happy talk Anyone with happy talk about AI data centers or endless growth was going to destroy the state. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 24 Nov. 2025 There is a lot of happy talk about working together to expand the pie, but the word competition keeps bumping up against the word collaboration. — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025 Unmoored from reality, the pronouncements veer into happy talk. — Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2025 Trump’s preference for political happy talk has already reframed conversations about his economic agenda. — Bruce Yandle, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for happy talk

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Normally, such cross talk is seen as interference, which radios are designed to suppress—especially digital radios with their error-correcting schemes and inherent resistance to low-level noise.

— Ana I. Pérez-Neira, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2026
But in recent years, investigators have uncovered chemical and electrical cross talk between neurons and cancer cells that powerfully fuel a tumor’s growth.

— Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025

Definition of cross talk

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Chapek recounts an exchange with Iger — who is mentioned 121 times in the book— years before the CEO changeover.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
In his op-ed, Mitsotakis rejected the notion of loaning portions of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, which claims to already own them, in a similar arrangement to the Bayeux Tapestry exchange.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

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Its rat-a-tat-tat dialogue could come out of a ’40s screwball comedy like Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday, or even Billy Wilder’s 1961 One Two Three.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
With Apatow at the helm, the chat took some comical turns, as might be expected, and also some unusually revealing ones, as Apatow getting McCartney to loosen up provided some real personal asides as well as screwball dialogue.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of dialogue

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As offshore wind farms become increasingly larger and more dense, this moves beyond the familiar military/air-traffic-radar debate and into whether coastal vessel-tracking systems can reliably see small craft moving among turbines.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
Kaczynski learns that he was manipulated, and that Murray and his team had been studying his response to stress during these debates to better understand soldiers returning from war and to see what makes young men submit.

— Jane LaCroix, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of debate

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Savvy Mercury also makes its debut in Scorpio, trading small talk for deep and slightly interrogative conversations, because this Water sign doesn’t do surface-level.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026
The perfect way to decompress in between all the fashion show small talk!

— Irene Kim, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of small talk

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Authentic experiences are the priority, at least for good-quality operators, from sampling butter tea with yak herders in China to exploring landmarks through the eyes of local guides.

— Vicky Smith, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2026
The on-site boutique is a (pricey) treasure trove of gorgeous silk and yak wool shirts, scarves, and home goods woven by Norhla.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026

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